Did Hitchcock have a drone?

[Ptah]

[JoeOtterbein]

1. Looks like a pic from a low flying airplane. Like a crop-duster.

Any reason why not?

[Ptah]

6. Here's a jerky gif of the scene.

[peekaloo]

2. Yes. In the cadence of his speech.

He was a clever devil.

[jmowreader]

3. Do you have a YouTube video of this scene?

If he "flew through" the scene, he shot this from an airplane. Remember, all movies were shot on film back then - and you would have needed a hell of a big drone to contain a film camera and its operators. A Predator or Reaper drone wouldn't have been big enough.

If the background was stationary, this is a crane shot - which is exactly what it sounds like. He's not very high up, so a utility company bucket truck would have worked.

[Ptah]

7. Here:

[jmowreader]

11. Definite crane shot. The camera position never changes.

[hunter]

4. Wow, I recognized that as California, near Delano right away.

The struggling, salt stained and abandoned fields are distinctive.

Route 155 (near the intersection with 6th Ave/Dairy Ave) was the location of the famous "crop duster" scene from the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest.

http://www.carygrant.net/reviews/NxNW%20Locations.html

This land should never have been opened to agriculture.

I've never seen North by Northwest.

[Dave Starsky]

5. No, he just had a bigass crane.

[Ptah]

8. Great picture, Dave!

Now I know how it was done.

[Dave Starsky]

9. Looks like he also used a wide angle lens, to enhance the effect.

You can see the bus off on the right in that picture, and it doesn't look that far away.

Dude was a genius, for sure.